Asparagus. It turns out that canned asparagus is gross but steamed is great.
Bacon. My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser. I hated it, but my mom would insist on putting some small cubes on the beans to “give a taste” (it didn’t). Took me some time to finally experiment one that was fried to a crispy dryness. Infinitely better.
Dirty vocals in death and doom metal
Sean Killian’s vocals from Vio-lence.
No Rain by Blind Melon
I’m not going to say I “love” them now, but I appreciate onions’ use in cooking and flavour profiles now. Whereas when I was younger, anything I ate had to have no onion in it whatsoever.
Gardening.
Previously my only gardening experience was my mom yelling at me to weed outside in the hot summer sun.
Now that I live alone, I started getting potted plants, and there is something wonderful about sharing my space with green growing things. I have a few that have really taken to the environment and amount of sunlight, watching them grow is wonderful. Marveling when one of my little planty bois randomly flowers, and there’s something so stress-relieving about digging your hands into soil when it’s time to re-pot.
Yeah, I’m getting back into gardening despite the whole being yelled at to help garden as a kid! Also if the plants die, when I cry over them, I won’t be told I’m being melodramatic!
Green vegetables
Grunge, especially Pearl Jam
Old people cars… I’m old people now I guess
Sex, as a kid it sounded like a disgusting idea filled with disgusting bodily fluids. As an adult my logical part still finds it disgusting every now and again while my monkey part is horny non-stop.
Also bitter foods, they kind of grow on you as you age
Curry.
Onions.
As a kid I thought they were alien and gross, and now thinking back I can still see that. But at some point, I had a burger with minced onions on it and was like “oh these things are great” and was a fan ever since. My onion smell is physical dominance 💪
Grilled onions are the BOMB. Especially if you get a sweet onion like a Walla Walla.
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Turn-based RPGs.
Although only very few of those are in my top favorites, but back then DESPISED the genre, because of a really bad experience playing one as a child.
Thought I hated pasta, turns out, it was just the cheese, not the actual pasta.
